>But on the other hand, I like the ability to submit a pull-request that >adds a package, a NixOS module and documentation while also bumping the >version of some dependencies. It makes it clear that one bunch of >changes are related. > >Having different repos brings the difficulty to make different >pull-requests related to the same idea, and to convince different >maintainers that the change is useful. At best it slows updates as the >pull-request for the module will have to wait for the PR of the package >to be merged. At worst, we could get inconsistent decisions about merging.
As far as I remember, related changes were the reason to move NixOS inside the NixPkgs repository, by the way. _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
